“All under God's Eyes!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: D&C 30-36

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Opening Hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ECFF9hxjoI
Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
II. Theme: "All under God's Eyes!"
III. Point I bullet point summaries
i. 30 three revelations in one. Just first names--why so precise with full names, BC
1. David Whitmer. Rebuked. JS living in their house, and dependent upon them. Excommunicated
2. Peter Whitmer. Mission. Died of tuberculosis at age 27, leaving a widow
3. John Whitmer. Mission. historian, later apostatized, tried to sell the church his history, now we own it.
ii. 31 Thomas B. Marsh, excommunicated 1839, rebaptized 1857
1. Family
2. Teaching things given to JS
3. Forgiveness as thrust in sickle
4. Not of man, but of me
iii. 32 Lamanites
1. PPP, faithful, Ziba Peterson, excommunicated, sheriff of Hang-Town, later Placerville, CA (1/2 way between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe)
2. Mission organized.
a. Lamanites, AmerInds, and Book of Mormon
3. Heed to written, no other revelations (need for a canon)
a. Hiram Page affair
b. JS Manual, “The Melchizedek Priesthood … is the channel through which all knowledge, doctrine, the plan of salvation, and every important matter is revealed from heaven.”
iv. 33 Second Coming
1. Ezra Thayer, Northrop Sweet (both apostatized; Thayer council of 50, later Strangite, CoC; Sweet Pure Church of Christ)
2. Mission
3. Corrupt field. Can we say this? Can we say the word apostasy?
4. Open Mouth and filled. Faith precedes miracle. Treasure up words, vs large language model making analytical statements
5. Term: Articles and Covenants, D&C 20; BOM and Scriptures vs Chatbots
v. 34 Orson Pratt
1. Brigham Young JD 16:10 But in this I shall except brother Pratt, for the simple reason that I do not know a man who is more willing to do what he is told than he is. If he is told to teach mathematics, he is willing to do it; if he is told to make books, preach the Gospel, work in a garden or tend cattle, he is willing to do it, and I know of no man more willing to do anything and everything required of him than he is.
2. JD 17 talks about this, age 19
a. vs 10, and prophesy: This was a particular point in the revelation that seemed to me too great for me ever to attain to, and yet there was a positive command that I should do it. I have often reflected upon this revelation, and have oftentimes inquired in my heart-"Have I fulfilled that commandment as I ought to have done? Have I sought as earnestly as I ought to obtain the gift of prophecy, so as to fulfill the requirement of heaven?" And I have felt sometimes to condemn myself because of my slothfulness, and because of the little progress that I have made in relation to this great, heavenly, and divine gift.
vi. 35 Sidney Rigdon
1. Scribe for JS, JST. this overlaps with message in Book of Moses
2. Son of God, atonement
3. Preparatory work
a. John, and knew it not
b. follies and abomination
c. None doeth good, except those ready to receive the fullness of gospel
4. Thrash the nations
5. Their arm shall be my arm; fight manfully--toxic masculinity?
vii. 36 Edward Partridge. Died in Nauvoo faithful
1. My hand by hand of my servant
a. Divine investiture
b. Previous section their arm my arm, my arm their arm
IV. Point II power principles
i. Our church, Other Churches
1. Views
a. Universalism, all churches good
b. radical exclusionary, Just us
c. One true church, but god works though other faiths, to a lesser degree
2. What learn
a. Converting people
b. Missionaries to other churches
c. James Coville, baptist 39-40
d. Shakers, 49
ii. Good people corrupted
1. "And my vineyard has become corrupted every whit; and there is none which doeth good save it be a few; and they err in many instances because of priestcrafts, all having corrupt minds.33:4
2. they have all gone astray save it be a few, who are the humble followers of Christ; nevertheless, they are led, that in many instances they do err because they are taught by the precepts of men. 1 Nephi 28
3. Filter our man's precepts. Terrestrial
iii. Like John and knew it not
1. Greater work and lesser work, Elias and Elijah
2. Working relationship with other faiths
iv. My hand by the hand of my servant
1. Focus on priesthood authority, both men and women
2. same concept, divine investiture of authority
3. How seriously when brush off ministering brothers
v. Open mouth and be filled
V. Point III
i. ETB "Power of the Word"
ii. Whenever we face a problem, do we turn to the world, or do we turn to the revelations?
1. Church finances.
a. Tithing, loans, bonds. HJG was go-to man
b. System not working
2. LS, revelation for tithing
iii. See this in ward councils, quorum.
1. Temple attendance
a. PCC across the street.
i. Foot traffic
b. Issues
i. Busy
ii. Argument with wife (rule: no arguments on temple night)
c. Ideas
i. Put up an accountability board
ii. ST Pres. report home teaching in quorum
iii. Social pressure and public shaming
VI. Christ Quotient
i. Atonement Quotient watch what happened to all these brothers. Many were excommunicated, some came back. Some stay true and faithful. What does that teach us about the atonement?
ii. Paying attention to people and principles. why so many went wrong? What personal lessons?
iii. Context of broader work, and our small patches we plow.
iv. How is Heavenly Father specifically guided you. Are you using this PH authority, this divine investiture to do the work of Christ? That's the point.
 
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